Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-23
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
An Epitans Of ths Principal Events Now
Attracting PabIe Interest

/ ne IbuuCtlOu vi the piulic uVp'
during the month Of July was S5,O0O,-
900.
4 Eighty eight persons were summa-
rily executed near Shanghai for be-
longing to secret societies.
| Oliver and Elmer Brumbaugh, sons
of a wealthy farmer, we're drowned
while bathing near Canton, Ohio.
The President has appointed Charles
Challie Long, OF New York, TO be Sec
Rotary OF Legation and Consul General
at Corea.
| The election just held in Utah pre-
scented the strange anomaly of q
nephew Of Brigham Young running
on Gentle ticket.
AT Lynchburg, Va, in a shooting
match English rules, DIR. Carver
broke the worlds record, killing fifty
pigeons, and making clean score.
The Glenn bill, making it felony to
educate white and black children in
the same school, was passed by the
Georgia House by vote of ia to 2.
The Austrian mint has received or
ders to make 60O00 silver and bronze
war medals, bearing an effigy Of Prince
Alexander, for distribution in the Bull
garian army.
A drunken fight took place at the
christening OF child in Brooklyn, in
which one man was stabbed to death,
and man and woman fatally stabbed
and two other persons seriously cut
According to the official reports
there were 1926 deaths from cholera
Chill during the period from January
to June of this year, and the govern
ment expended vi ,007 900 fighting the
epidemic.
A freight train on the Atlantic &
Pacific plunged into canyon over
which the bridge had been burned, re-
sulting in the death Of the engineer
and fatal injury of the fireman and
brakeman, near Needles, CAL
Sergeant CLARK, of the Twenty-third
U. s. Infantry, has been acquitted of
the charge OF murder in shooting a
private who was attempting to escape
from military prison near Detroit
The Court held that a soldier must
obey the legal orders of a superior Off
Ger.
A disastrous tornado passed over the
town of David, .Neb. One man was
killed and over half the buildings de-
molished, including the Union Pacific
and Burlington and Missouri depots,
the large brick schoolhouse, the Meth
odist and Congregational churches,
several stores and many dwelling
houses.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is about
to leave England and take up her
abode permanently in New York. AL.
geron 5. Sartoris, her husband, will not
1T is said accompany her, but will re-
main abroad to enjoy his clubs and
his races, very much in the same man
ner as has been his habit for several
years.
A beer kettle in brewery at Green
Bay, Wis, exploded, scalding seven
men, six of whom died-August Del
forge and two sons, J. B. Herbe, John
Biemert and George Herbe. Delforge
and Biemert leave families The ket-
tie held 100 barrels OF boiling water,
which poured over the victims, literally
cooking the flesh.
A construction train on the Chicago
& Alton road, on which were nearly
one hundred laborers, was run into
by freight train. The trains met on
the Orendorff bridge, near Hopedale,
Ill. The following were killed on the
construction train Martin Bunseth,
James Brown, Frank Drake, Plano
Barlow and James Kellogg. A dozen
or more were seriously injured.
A special from Richmond, Ind,
says: As Joseph Rich, farmer,
and his wife and eighteen. months-old
babe, his wife's mother, Mrs. Hannah
Newccmb, were returning home from
town, their carriage was struck by
train on the crossing just west OF the
city limits. Mr.. Rich, Mrs. Newcomb
and the babe were instantly killed, all
three being horribly mangled. Mrs.
Rich escaped with serious injuries.
A fire in Chicago tenement house
resulted in the death of two persons
and the injury of ten others, five of
whom will probably die. The two
dead are Mrs. Trugo and her two-year-
old daughter. They were being low
cred on Il rope from the third story and
about to be rescued by Captain Cowan
when an outburst of smoke enveloped
them. The woman and child and
Captain Cowan fell into the flames be.
low. They were pulled out, but the
mother and infant were dead. The
Captain is dying. The other four per
sons supposed to be fatally injured are
all young members of the Trugo family.
Suit has been commenced in the
Utah Territorial Supreme Court. un.
der direction OF Attorney General Gar
land, against the Mormon church, for
coniiscation of S3,000,000 in property
alleged to be unlawfully held by the
church, and for the appointment of a
receiver to wind up the affairs of the
known as the Church of |
Jesus Christ, Latter-Day Saints. The
proceedings are instituted inconformitv
to the provisions Of the Edmunds law.
which disincorporated the organiza.
ton and declared all its property in
excess of $4,000 eschoated to the GOV.
eminent and applied to the benefit of
the public schools OF the Territory.
The church has immense possessions
81 every shape, but held in such a
manner that it is thought almost impos-